Canada’s National Arts Centre is delighted to announce a unique website feature called NAC Orchestra Concerts on Demand. "Concerts on Demand" allows anyone with a computer to enjoy free online streaming concerts – only a click away. National Arts Centre Orchestra ‘Concerts on Demand’ is the first such feature of its kind, anywhere in the world.

"Concerts on Demand" is available 24 hours a day/7 days a week and features uninterrupted, commercial-free performances by the National Arts Centre Orchestra and internationally acclaimed guest artists. Each concert has its own audio file and a virtual house program (a .pdf file) which includes program notes and biographies of the artists.

Many audience members undergo exhilarating, deeply emotional experiences at an NAC Orchestra concert. ‘Concerts on Demand’ now offers a virtual “replay” button for selected concerts, allowing music lovers all over the world to experience the magic of the music for the first time … or to relive the music all over again.

Be entertained, inspired, engaged, transported, transformed, intellectually stimulated, deeply moved … or all of the above. Experience “NAC Orchestra Concerts on Demand’ at: http://nacmusicbox.ca

Ten (10) concerts are currently available, with two more to be added later this season. Approximately 7-10 new concerts per season will be added in future years. Concerts will be posted online within 10 days of the performance.

• Repertoire includes works by Thomas Adès, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Copland, Dvo?ák, Haydn, Jacques Hétu, Gary Kulesha, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Rossini, Nino Rota, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, and Vaughan Williams, Weber
• Conductors include National Arts Centre Orchestra Music Director Pinchas Zukerman, Hannu Lintu, Arild Remmereit, Alexander Shelley, and Thomas Søndergård
• Featured artists/soloists include such celebrated names as Yefim Bronfman, Kirill Gerstein, Viviane Hagner, Leila Josefowicz, Louis Lortie, Andrew mcCandless, Jon Kimura Parker, Juho Pohjonen, Avan Yu, and Pinchas Zukerman, as well as soloists from the NAC Orchestra, including Amanda Forsyth, Joanna G’froerer, Yosuke Kawasaki, Emily Marks, and Joel Quarrington.

Please note that Concerts on Demand is a Flash application; a mobile application is in the works.

 

THE FOLLOWING CONCERTS ARE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

Concert performance/recording date: June 3, 2010
Conductor: Pinchas Zukerman
Repertoire: Jacques Hétu: Antinomie; Dvo?ák: Symphony No. 9 in G major; Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 2 in B-flat major
Featured artist: Yefim Bronfman, piano

Concert performance/recording date: June 10, 2010
Conductor: Pinchas Zukerman
Repertoire: Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C major; Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor; Schumann: Konzertstück in F major
Featured artists: Avan Yu, piano; Lawrence Vine, James Sommerville, Michael Thornton, Patricia Evans, horn

Concert performance/recording date: September 25, 2010
Conductor: Pinchas Zukerman
Repertoire: Mozart: Serenade No. 7 in D major, “Haffner”; Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major
Featured artist: Pinchas Zukerman, violin

Concert performance/recording date: October 7, 2010
Conductor: Pinchas Zukerman
Repertoire: Rossini: overture to Il Signor Bruschino; Rota: Divertimento concertante; Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major, “Italian”
Featured artist: Joel Quarrington, double bass

Concert performance/recording date: October 14, 2010
Conductor: Alexander Shelley
Repertoire: Schumann: Symphony no. 1 in B flat Major, “Spring”; Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor; Copland: Appalachian Spring
Featured artist: Louis Lortie, piano

Concert performance/recording date: September 27, 2011
Conductor: Pinchas Zukerman
Repertoire: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2
Featured artist: Kirill Gerstein, piano

Concert performance/recording date: October 12-13, 2011
Conductor: Hannu Lintu
Repertoire: Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Thomas Adès: Concerto for Violin: Concertric Paths; Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Featured artist: Leila Josefowicz, violin

Concert performance/recording date: October 26, 2011
Conductor: Thomas Søndergård
Repertoire: Gary Kulesha: Third Symphony; Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21; Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Featured artist: Juho Pohjonen, piano

Concert performance/recording date: January 11, 2012
Conductor: Alexander Shelley
Repertoire: Schubert: Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”; Bruch: Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra; Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”
Featured artist: Yosuke Kawasaki, violin

Concert performance/recording date: February 1, 2012
Conductor: Pinchas Zukerman
Repertoire: Weber: Der Freischutz: overture; Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto; Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Featured artist: Viviane Hagner, violin

THE FOLLOWING CONCERTS WILL BE AVAILABLE WITHIN 10 DAYS OF THE DATE OF RECORDING

Concert performance/recording date: April 19-20, 2012
Conductor: Pinchas Zukerman
Repertoire: Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, No. 1, No. 5, No. 4, No. 6, No. 2
Featured artists: Pinchas Zukerman, violin and viola; Yosuke Kawasaki, violin; Joanna G’froerer and Emily Marks, flute; Andrew McCandless, trumpet; Jon Kimura Parker, harpsichord

Concert performance/recording date: June 13-14, 2012
Conductor: Pinchas Zukerman
Repertoire: Mozart: Serenade No. 6, “Serenata Notturna”; Haydn: Symphony No. 92, “Oxford”; Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
Featured artists: Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Yosuke Kawasaki, violin; Jethro Marks, viola; Amanda Forsyth, cello; Joel Quarrington, double bass

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Information:  
Gerald Morris
Communications Officer, NAC Music
613-947-7000, ext. 335  
[e-mail]  gerald.morris@nac-cna.ca